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Mpox (monkeypox)

Mpox is a viral infection that until recently was called monkeypox. The name was an accident of history: monkeys simply happened to be the first animals the…

MRSA (antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus)

MRSA is a Staphylococcus aureus resistant to meticillin and other commonly used antibiotics.

Mucositis

Mucositis is inflammation and ulceration of the lining of the digestive tract, from the lips to the anus, caused by chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

Multiple sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis, or MS, is a disease in which the immune system attacks the body's own nerve tissue.

Multiple system atrophy (MSA)

Multiple system atrophy is a rare disease in which nerve cells in several parts of the brain die off at the same time.

Mumps

Mumps is a viral infection that inflames the salivary glands. The face swells in front of the ears and under the jaw, the jawline disappears and the neck…

Muscular dystrophy

Muscular dystrophy is not one disease but a group of inherited conditions in which a fault in a gene leaves the muscle fibre without a protein it needs, and…

Myalgic encephalomyelitis (chronic fatigue syndrome)

This condition has two names and one abbreviation: ME/CFS. The second name is misleading, because everyone knows the word fatigue, and from the outside it…

Myasthenia gravis

Myasthenia gravis is not a disease of the muscle itself but of the point where the nerve hands over its instruction.

Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS)

Myelodysplastic syndrome is a disease of the bone marrow, the tissue inside the bones where blood cells are made.

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